Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-11-01
CITY BOARD OF EpUCATIO .
The Public School Buildings Not TO BE
Used for Sabbath Schools.

| Used for Sabbath Schools.
The City Board of Education met IN reg
ular monthly session at the office OF Super
intendent Beard last evening, all the mem
bers present, President Conklin presiding.
Several teachers were present.
A communication was received from
James Hickey resigning the position OF jan
itor of the Capital Primary school. To fill
the vacancy thus occasioned the following
| gentlemen were placed in nomination: J..
| H Woolf, Albert Landau and John Perry.
On roll call Mr.. Woolf received five votes
and was declared elected.
A communication was received from
Mrs. Kate Morford one of the substitute
teachers, dated in the State OF New Y ork,
| asking for an extension of thirty days to
her leave of absence. The request was
| granted.
! 4 LITTLE LEvITY.
One of the Directors stated that he had
some good news to impart. lady who
had been an applicant for a position in the
| city schools for eight years had
gone off and really got married.
and had withdrawn her applica-
| ton This announcement created quite
! laugh, and member remarked that II she
had succeeded in getting position IN the
| schools she never would have enjoyed
marital bliss, for as a rule Sacramento
! school-marms are proof against CUPID S
darts. A school marin once, an old maid
always, had become a trueism IN this
| burg.
County School Superintendent B. F.
Howard asked that the teachers IN the
Sacramento High School be allowed to
participate in the proceedings OF the APP
preaching county teachers institute, which
| is to be held in the Capital Grammar
School on the 9th. 10Th and 18th instants
In order to accommodate both teachers and
the Superintendent, a vacation was ordered
in all the city schools for those days.
Miss Jennie Powers, one OF the substitute
teachers, asked for two months leave OF
absence from the city, which was granted.
AMENDED RULES.
Rule - was amended to read as follows
Rule ~ 1t shall be the duty of Principals to
read TO their pupils, from time to time, so much
of the school regulations as apply TO them. 1t
shall be the duty of Principals to see that the
janitors of their school buildings hall perform
their duties properly. Principals shall report to
the Board any dereliction of duty on the part of
janitors.
The following, Rule 60, the Board insists
must in the future be strictly enforced:
Rule 60. Teachers in charge of buildings,
grounds, and bell, for periods of one week at a
time, must have general supervision of all the
pupils in the building during recess ; preserve
order in the halls and school-rooms; report to
the teachers and Principal any pupil who is
guilty of using vulgar or profane language, or
disorderly conduct; or of mutilatlng or iniur-
ing school property, 1. G., trees, fences, gates,
outhouses, etc; see that pupils do not play
upon the sidewalks before or after school hours
see that pupils remain in the yard after lunch
remain in the yard weather permitting) and
within hearing of the boys during all the re-
cess see that the several classes in the build
ing are assembled and dismissed at the same
time, and see them outside the gate provided
however, that should a teacher detain any pupil
or pupils for instruction or punishment longer
than fifteen minutes after the others are dis
missed they must see them outside the gate
keep timetable upon blanks, which the Su-
perintendent must have prepared and furnish
which shall show daily which teachers were in
attendance as required by Rule AZ, and which,
if any, were tardy or absent, and for what
length of time, and file such table at the end of
the week with the Principal, who must trans
nit the same to the Superintendent with the re-
assigned to jauitors are promptly and properly
performed, or in default of such performance
report the same to the Principal.
SABBATH SCHOOLS SHUT OUT.
Parties made application for the use Of
the school building at Twenty and
] streets for holding Sabbath-school serv-
ices. This request opened up a lengthy
discussion. Ii one denomination was al
lowed to use them, another could not be
denied the same privilege. Many COM
plants had been made to the Board and
the City Superintendent by the teachers
and janitors, claiming that while the OBJ
ject was a worthy one, still the property
suffered. The rooms were Uttered, the
scholars books, papers and pencils were
misplaced and in many instances taken
away from the buildings, blackboard draw
ings were wiped out, the city's wood was
burned, and it caused them no end of an
noyance.
After lengthy discussion the Board de-
cided by a unanimous vote that on and
after December LIST all public school build
ings should remain closed upon the Sab
bath. This Will give the Sabbath schools
now being held in public school buildings
ample time to secure other quarters. The
Board decides on the strict enforcement of
Rule II, which reads:
School buildings shall not be used for any
other purpose than the accommodation of the
public schools, nor shall any festival or exhibit
ton lie held by any public school, without per-
mission from the Board of Education.
The following bills were allowed and or
dered paid D. ?. Thompson, S33 70; F.
NJ. R-v 50; Capital Gas Company, SIG So
]. A Lafferty, SIS; S. II. Davis, 81 As;
Smith d Muir, So 70; Ben Cohen, $25 50;
Locke & Layenson, $12 IS; John Shelton,
81, 427 so; pay roll, S7,096 Total, S., 63S IS.
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